Comet browser can help companies to hire less, says Perplexity CEO

Perplexity’s Comet browser can help companies boost productivity so that they don’t have to hire more people, said cofounder and chief executive Aravind Srinivas.

“Instead of hiring one more person on your team, you could just use Comet to supplement all the work that you’re doing,” Srinivas said on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Srinivas said that Comet is meant to become a “true personal assistant” which can work without human intervention.


“The future is AI's that are just doing work for you, even as you sleep, without you even asking for it. It's auto drafting your responses to emails… It's scheduling your meetings on your behalf and moving things around even without you asking for it,” Srinivas said.

On Thursday, Perplexity AI made its Comet browser free for all free, Pro and Max users. Launched in July, the browser was introduced to Perplexity Pro users in India last month.

The AI company also unveiled Comet Plus, which will be a new subscription plan for both humans and AIs to consume news. The standalone subscription plan for the service will cost $5 per month and will be bundled with Perplexity Pro and Max.

Initially, Comet Plus will host content from CNN, Conde Nast (publishers of The New Yorker, Wired, Architectural Digest and others), Fortune, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

As announced in August, the participating publishers will be paid for user engagement, user agent actions, and indexing of content. Perplexity will pay them out of a $42.5 million revenue pool for the news it uses to answer queries, Wall Street Journal had reported.